The Gunners were hardly goal-shy last season as they scored 71 goals across the campaign to secure a third place finish in the Premier League.

Indeed, it was not a bad tally from the side as they were just two goals behind winners Chelsea, while Manchester City led the way on 83. Wenger though, is targeting more goals from all over the pitch, rather than the usual suspects of Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud.

“What we want is some more goals from some players who are not really strikers and that was our strength traditionally,” he told arsenal.com.

“Our offensive and creative players scored 10 to 12 goals, that’s what you need. The goal scoring, the finishing, is a bit more psychic than any other activity in the team and when they go through a bad spell they leave their place for somebody else.”

“Our target is to improve our number of goals but you have examples of teams who have scored 90 or 100 goals and have not won the championship,” he added.

“We want to combine good defensive efficiency with 10 more goals. In the second part of last season we only conceded 13 goals in 19 games. So we want to keep that and add a few more goals. I think we can find that from inside.”

Sean Lunt

Sean Lunt is a Journalism and Spanish graduate with a passion for football. As an avid Everton fan he has survived the Walter Smith era, enjoyed the resurgence under David Moyes and is now wholly embracing the Spanish revolution with Roberto Martinez. Away from Everton he follows the rest of the football league and has a particular interest in La Liga.